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Are vaccines being responsibly and fairly administered?

Eligible Populations

Right now, the state has highlighted two phases of the Texas Population that are eligible to receive available COVID-19 vaccines: Phase 1A and Phase 1B. To learn more about each of the populations, expand the summaries below.

Eligible Population | Phase 1A

Below is a description of the Phase 1A population, as described by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

First Tier

Second Tier

Eligible Population | Phase 1B

Below is a description of the Phase 1B population, as described by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

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Statewide Demographic Summaries

Towards the end of January, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) began publishing breakdowns of vaccinations by across different demographics, specifically age, gender, and race/ethnicity. While there’s a lot of unknowns in the data–particularly across entries for “Race/Ethnicity”+“Gender”–and also because we don’t have the population estimates for phases 1A and 1B broken down by race/age/gender, the data presented by DSHS struggles to paint an incomplete picture of the profile of vaccinated individuals. That said, the charts below attempt to breakdown that data with as much clarity as possible across all known and unknown classifcations.

The first chart is broken up into six different panels–one for each classification of a race or ethnicity. Within each of those panels, there’s two sets of five-columned bar charts which represent the reported gender. The dark blue colored bars (facing upwards) represent the female population within each race and ethnicity classification while the gray colored bars (facing downwards) represent the male population within each race and ethnicity classification. Each column within a set of blue or gray colored bars represents a different age group.

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Where Accessible Populations Live in Texas

Where Inaccessible Populations Live in Texas

Photography Credit

Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash

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